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Recipe: Lemon Risotto with Peas, Tarragon, and Leeks

Sometimes you feel like mixing your seasons up. This is a very Spring-like risotto. I can imagine how great this will be with fresh English peas from the garden next year. Hopefully, the tarragon in the herb garden will be up by then and I can find some nice tender leeks in the store.

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Recipe: Shrimp and Pea Risotto

This recipe comes from Gourmet magazine.  I really do miss this magazine.  Though I subscribe to Food & Wine, Bon Appetit and Cooking Light, Gourmet remains my all-time favorite.  I’m currently reminiscing the old Gourmet by reading Ruth Reichl’s Garlic and Sapphires.  With such a legacy of personalities like Ruth and Sara Moulton, it

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Quick Friday Night Risotto

At work yesterday, I was talking with a co-worker about great places in the downtown Milwaukee area to eat.  One of the locations showed a beautiful butternut squash risotto on the landing page of their site.  It looked wonderful and reminded me that I had arborio rice and butternut squash at home.  On the

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Mushroom Risotto

Risotto is a traditional Italian dish that capitalizes on rice and its starch.  The starch is converted into a creamy, delicious sauce that envelopes the rice in a sauce flavored by whatever you can think of.  I made a mushroom risotto tonight for dinner.  Shiitake mushrooms looked good today.  I found some sliced cremini

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Meal Plan - Week of January 10th

In light of last week’s common theme of tomatoes, I decided to try to be a bit more varied in setup for next week.  I’m going to reuse mushrooms in a few of the dishes.  Beyond that, they’re all pretty different.  I’m going to start with a standard roast chicken a la Julia.  We’ll

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